Nauman Naqvi of the News Questions Pakistan’s Survival!!!

FAULT LINES EXPOSED!!!

 

The format is skillfully selected. There is a single question for six participants to answer, with their photographs. All very well educated, which gives a false air of credibility to the material. Their answers are spun around a rationale which has invariably the ability to map out a new consciousness in the readers – a consciousness to dismantle Pakistan as a state. The whole format is suggestive of a managed affair in which the participants (Other than Iqbal Ahmad) take the cue as performers. Their mindset synchronize well with Tariq Ali’s – the inveterate hater of Muslim Pakistan – from whose book the title of the format has been taken. In this introduction to the theme, Nauman Naqvi even quotes Tariq Ali

 

“The question which now increasingly haunts the new generations in Pakistan is not simply whether the country can survive, but whether its existence was necessary in the first place.”

 

Six ideas surface from the highlighted sentences:

 

1.      Pakistan and its people are no co-extensive [translated, they can live anywhere]

 

2.      People are more important than Pakistan [translated, their economic well being matters, which can be sought in any union other than Pakistan.]

 

3.      Pakistan is fictitious, an “insufficiently imagined state” [translated, its Muslimness makes it a fictitious state].

 

4.      Collective consciousness of nation statehood does not exist in Pakistan [translated, first it was the ideological state-based on “communal thinking” – which the old socialists (now liberal democrats) wanted to replace with a secular nation-state, not it is the nation-state which needs to be pulled down].

 

5.      Kashmiris will continue to pay the price for the existence of Pakistan [translated, the Kashmiris right to self-determination owes to the pull they have for Pakistan. Thus, Pakistan must be finished].

 

6.      Pakistan and India represent a cultural unit which is far more stronger than the nation-state [translated, the two should be one].

 

Suggested Remedy

 

Pakistan should merge itself into a South Asian confederation [that is: a template for recreating pre-independence India]. – This is a clear indicidation of the bigotry of the secular press in Pakistan who under the banner of “freedom of speech” are hitting at the foundations of the country and its ideology.

 

Questions

 

For whom exactly is the News International and its staff working for?

Media Alert!!! – Exposing Pakistan’s Secular Media

“Civilization is not solely defined by freedom, but by the way freedom is limited by responsibilities, duties, compassion and when these prove inadequate, the law. The jungle is free, civilization is not.”

 

Edward de Bono

 

·         What kind of journalist we have in Pakistan?

 

·         Is it a mirror of our nation’s soul?

 

·         Does it reflect our aspirations?

 

·         Does it act as a custodian of our Constitution, as a preserver of the federation of Pakistan?

 

·         Does it reconstruct or deconstruct our society?

 

·         Whose interest it serves anyway?

 

There is a disturbing particularity to the question which will become obvious when the reader goes through the subsequent blog posts.

 

The selected specimens are vaguely suggestible of elite journalism – a term used by Lichter-Rothman. “The elite,” he says, “discover new realities … by reintegrating their own experience to conform to the new situation.”

 

The kind of journalism we are focusing on is altogether different with no parallel elsewhere. One may call it kill journalism for it lacks objectivity, feelings, a sense of belonging to the land and people; it is also in conflict with history. Worse, it mangles facts to temper a new consciousness that does not help our survival as an independent people.

 

Our evaluation of the press is neither politically driven nor self-centered. Our criterion is our nation’s constitution which cannot be faulted for lack of objectives and clarity. Also, we did not decontextualize the quotes – they remain embedded in the text.

 

Our scanning has been confined to a few dailies and weeklies particularly the English press. There is a lot in the Urdu press as well which we may take up in the future.

 

A word of caution…

 

Those who can’t suffer the indignity of Pakistan’s defeat in sports at others’ hands should not read our sampling from the press. We don’t take any responsibility for any violence to their feelings or for any attendant outrage that may surface itself after reading it.

Jang Group Sings Pro Indian Tunes in support of United India!!!

FAULTLINES EXPOSED!!!

 

This clipping is a real masterpiece by the Pro-Indian Jang Group

 

·         Even after 50 years of Pakistani nationhood the newspaper talks about British India – a concept long thrown away into the pit

 

·         View Pakistan’s future as linked with India, as if it has no future of its own. Yes, create a mentality of dependence, blame Pakistan for your problems

 

·         United India would have been a great power

 

·         The British colonists carved out Pakistan

 

·         The nawabs, jagirdars and moneyed classes made it happen (this is the Marxist world view faithfully applied to the Pakistani context by the Jang Group!)

 

Shehzad Amjad of the News Rapes Pakistan’s “Historical Catastrophe”

FAULTLINES EXPOSED!!!

 

In this piece, the News writer carries his theme to absurdity. Doubtless, when someone has “foreign” cause to serve, sensitivity and fairness are last.

 

True! Pakistanis are not angels (the world is neither) but magnifying an isolated incident of a one-year old child’s sexual abuse as “nation-state that continues to exist in a ridiculous time warp” and “fed with total lies” is simply indicative of a sick psychotic mindset which has lost its sense of humanity and proportion. Only pro-Indian bigots and fanatic Indophiles like Shehzad Amjad and the News’ editorial staff can do a thing like this.

 

His other concern is how to safeguard the image of RAW as a decent Samitarian, harmless even helpful to Pakistan. What is RAW and what it has been doing, he should read Brigadier Tirmidhi’s Profile of Intelligence Agencies and Ashok’s Inside Raw.

 

What does the News aim at:

 

·         Demean Pakistan in the eyes of the readers by blowing up an individual incident over Pakistan’s ideology and history

 

·         Safeguard RAW’s image so that it continues its subversion (read: sectarianism, brutality, unrest, self doubt in the Pakistanis)

 

Would Someone Stop Them…????

by Tarik Jan

The danger of freedom is deliquescence; the danger of strict order is petrifaction.

All civilization have had trouble managing the passion escaping their disruptive consequences and harnessing them to useful and approved activity.

                                                     Peter Grey in his 2-vol the Enlightenment:
                                                     An Interpretation.

Every day that passes convinces us that by misusing freedom our media, exceptions allowed, is guilty of delinquescence – committing crimes against the Pakistani state and the value system of its people. The media crime is, however, far worst than other crimes because of the continual war it is waging against Pakistan – the land that shades them.

• Nation-state is bad and so is patriotism
• Nationalism is parochial and narrow
• Pakistan is a failed state; a worst country in the world
• Pakistan’s Islamic character (even in name) is communal and frightening
• Pakistan has no future
• Confederation with India
• SAARC as a template for pre-independence British India
• The corporate Muslim identity is medieval and bad. For them, either it is South Asian or nothing
• Rewriting history: Pakistanis are Indians.

Besides, the English media has become a fortified bunker for Islam-haters who are continually shelling at the social and moral values of the Pakistani people. The themes run as under:

• Being a Muslim is not a good identity
• Regulating human conduct is reprehensible
• Ghayrat (the idea that no body has the right to (i) dehumanize me nor I should let myself (ii) betray my self-respect) is contemptible.
• Free, irresponsible sex is a “joy of passion” – “moments of divinity” (focus on divinity)

The English press is read by a small section of the people, but it is the most influential section of our society (that is: armed forces, civil servants, corporate managers, judiciary and academia). Would they make right decisions for our nation and state after being subjected to the daily meltdown named English press? Would they stand up for the national agenda stated in our consensual document – the constitution.

That is the question!

Gripping About Prayers! – Anees Jilani Spews Out Hatred

by Tarik Jan

Anees Jilani’s article “Keep religion out of sports” March 2, 1999 really beats me: it is full of brash judgments, wise cracks, and untruths. Added to this, he comes up with three major themes in a 9 x 8 inch space starting from cosmology of his impressive recent “astrophysicists conference in the United State” to inconsequential prayers, and religious wars. For sure, humbleness does not stick in his case.

I tried my best to find linkage between his three themes, but it left me cheerless. If there is a string running through them, it is hate-for-religion. And that is pathetic.

His use of the “new-found” cosmology is problematic. First, the Western science uses it in support of the view that if the universe is ever expanding, then it is timeless. This runs into serious problem: it will conflict with the second law of thermodynamics which says, among others, if entropy is always increasing, time must be finite. Modern data allow us to assume that the solar system in years to come may loose its light leaving the earth in complete darkness. A denouement of the secularists’ everlasting world!

Second, there is no Creator behind this cosmology for the creation is self-propelling, self-creating. But Jilani like the politicians (e.g. Benazir for one), whom he rightly hates, puts God into it which is a contradiction in such kind of cosmology.

Third, his view of our humanity as “tiny, scrawny” is again the product of a Godless cosmology which implies that humans do not matter in the vast expanse of the universe — they are on their own with none to listen to them. Cruel it may be but this is a crafted message he is giving to the readers.

This may be a news to him but for us Muslims, the “worst off in the world”—Jilani’s words — the concept of an ever-expanding universe is not new. The Qur’an said it through the mouth of the illiterate Prophet:

The heaven, We have built is with power.
Surely, We are expanding it.
                                                         Sura 51:47

But unlike his secular metaphysics based on the astrophysicists’ cosmology, the same Qur’an also says that the world will be wrapped up one day:

When the heaven is cleft asunder,
when the planets are dispersed,
when the seas are poured forth,
And the sepulchers are over turned,
A soul will know what it has sent
before (it) and what left behind.
                                                         Sura 82: 1-5

Obviously his article is another example of double speak. His God, as opposed to the compassionate God of Islam who listens (sura 16: 30), won’t respond to our prayers because if He does, Indians will be at the bad end of the bargain.

Jilani also brings up the issue of bloodletting religious wars because he has to support his not-so-hidden-thesis of discrediting religion. Pathetic it may be, he ignores the fact that more people have been killed in non-religious wars than other’s. The two World Wars took a toll of 102 million people for territories and consumer markets. Racial hate cost the lives of more than 5.8 million Jews in Nazi Germany alone during the 1940s. Class conflict and the resultant reason-based scientific socialism gave a killing rate of 15 million people in former Soviet Union. Besides, was it a religious fanatic who threw nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? In two days alone, Americans killed 200,000 people in Hiroshima and 74,800 in Nagasaki. And who was this religious-driven monster who carried out 109,876 sorties on Iraq and droppend 88,000 tons of bomb on its armless people during the Gulf war?

Maybe what prompted him to write was the “wrong message” that our cricketers unwittingly gave to the youth. What could be a greater affront to a secular mind than the sight of the sajdah-making role-modelers — the modern-day icons of a secular society—giving religious expression to their win. Yes, it is a terrible waste of the secular yak-yak that our press pours out daily. Prayers in sports is an awful symbolism, a dated concept that disturbs the secularists’ comfort.

To cure his likes, one may suggest they watch the video clipping of Chaghi’s May 28, 1998 nuclear explosion and hear the chants of Allahu Akbar (Allah is Great) from the mouths of our modern educated nuclear scientists. A terrible waste of all the scientific education — isn’t it? But this is the way it will be.

Eat your heart out, Jilani!!!

The Secular Press at Pakistan’s Throat

Albert Camus: If you do not have a dream, invent one.

 

People watched the President of All Pakistan Newspaper Society (APNS) say these words on the television and were struck by the irony that was palpably manifested. A man who invents almost every other day a new nightmare for his nation had the cheek to talk of dreams for his people.

 

This is a strange country. Nothing alarms its rulers, nothing bothers its officials other than the pursuit of their vain desires at the expense of public money.

 

The information environment which is part of the security environment is left to saboteurs and seditious elements that have made the state vulnerable to the enemy machinations. Press, which on other nations stands for the state interests, undermines the foundational values of the nation’s genesis almost every other day and still it creates o stir. It speaks of breaking the state, merging it with India and it cause no ripple in the smug pool of our power apparatus. There seems to be nothing sacrosanct. left, neither the state nor its ideology. Everything is open to ridicule and subversion.

 

Where is the government, where is its profligate, plump bureaucracy, where are its intelligence agencies with their secret funds and powers? Where are the courts? Is their contempt higher in value than the subversion of the state and its insult? Have all of them gone deaf, blind and dumb? Desensitized and dehumanized, they stand discredited because power without love for the state and its honor is a moral equivalent of obscenity.

 

What pains us that a nation that could have become a superpower on its own strength is being cut limb to limb, it has been mercilessly left along in a paralyzed state of uncertainty and paranoia. Like an orphan it has no guardian, with none to wipe tears of blood from its fear stricken face.

 

 We urge the President and Prime Minister and high ranking officials to please stand up for Pakistan. External Security makes little sense if the internal security is not assured and the press cleansed of anti Pakistan secular elements. You are concerned about the lies, which the pres makes about your government; instead, you should be worried about what they write on Pakistan. India will not dare to fight you on the borders, it has launched its foot soldiers, disguised as intellectuals and editors in the secular press to undo Pakistan. You want to attack the enemy. Here is the material. Section 123-A PPC is your weapon. If you cant, then this nation is not going to believe in your high-sounding rhetoric of a strong and safe Pakistan.

 

Tarik Jan

October 14, 2000

The Secular Press at Pakistan’s Throat

Albert Camus: If you do not have a dream, invent one.

 

People watched the President of All Pakistan Newspaper Society (APNS) say these words on the television and were struck by the irony that was palpably manifested. A man who invents almost every other day a new nightmare for his nation had the cheek to talk of dreams for his people.

 

This is a strange country. Nothing alarms its rulers, nothing bothers its officials other than the pursuit of their vain desires at the expense of public money.

 

The information environment which is part of the security environment is left to saboteurs and seditious elements that have made the state vulnerable to the enemy machinations. Press, which on other nations stands for the state interests, undermines the foundational values of the nation’s genesis almost every other day and still it creates o stir. It speaks of breaking the state, merging it with India and it cause no ripple in the smug pool of our power apparatus. There seems to be nothing sacrosanct. left, neither the state nor its ideology. Everything is open to ridicule and subversion.

 

Where is the government, where is its profligate, plump bureaucracy, where are its intelligence agencies with their secret funds and powers? Where are the courts? Is their contempt higher in value than the subversion of the state and its insult? Have all of them gone deaf, blind and dumb? Desensitized and dehumanized, they stand discredited because power without love for the state and its honor is a moral equivalent of obscenity.

 

What pains us that a nation that could have become a superpower on its own strength is being cut limb to limb, it has been mercilessly left along in a paralyzed state of uncertainty and paranoia. Like an orphan it has no guardian, with none to wipe tears of blood from its fear stricken face.

 

We urge the President and Prime Minister and high ranking officials to please stand up for Pakistan. External Security makes little sense if the internal security is not assured and the press cleansed of anti Pakistan secular elements. You are concerned about the lies, which the pres makes about your government; instead, you should be worried about what they write on Pakistan. India will not dare to fight you on the borders, it has launched its foot soldiers, disguised as intellectuals and editors in the secular press to undo Pakistan. You want to attack the enemy. Here is the material. Section 123-A PPC is your weapon. If you cant, then this nation is not going to believe in your high-sounding rhetoric of a strong and safe Pakistan.

 

Tarik Jan

October 14, 2000

Urdu Khabrain Relates Pakistan As A Tragedy

Source: Khabrain (Urdu), January 30, 2001

FAULTLINES EXPOSED

The Secular Urdu Press in Pakistan has also taken up the responsibility of abusing the freedom of speech. The above article printed in the famous urdu newspaper Khabrain spills over the pro_indian themes while degrading Pakistan and its existence.

 

·         The writer above abuses the creation of Pakistan and deems it as the “greatest tragedy in human history.”

 

·         According to him Quaid e Azam committed the mistake of separating Pakistan from India

 

·         The partition did not affect Muslims because they were not able to differentiate between slavery and freedom

 

·         Pakistan did not give anything to the Muslims except for the sufferings

 

·         Whatever the Pakistanis have right now could have also been if we (Pakistanis) were not separated with India

 

·         The Mogul rule of India was no less than “Catharsis” for the people of the subcontinent

 

·         The history of Pakistan is replete with bloodshed, plundering and looting

 

This column attempts to create the artificial image of the confederation of Pakistan and India. There is no reason why this article was published in an Urdu newspaper in Pakistan except for creating revulsion against Pakistan’s ideology and history.

 

How can this be tolerated by the government authorities in Pakistan remains unanswered.

Subversion Through Journalism

The following is the debriefing of a former Czech Intelligence Officer from Dezinformatsia, which shows how the journalists are used by the enemy state

Q. Let us focus on journalists. You stated in your 1980 Congressional testimony that during your time in the field, you were in contact with the director of a national television network in Western Europe. What other kinds of journalists did you recruit?

A. I did not personally make the recruitment approach, but instead conducted the spotting and assessing of the target. Someone else would conduct the actual recruitment. Therefore, if the operation failed, I would not be exposed. We recruited many more journalists on the left of the political spectrum than in the center or on the right. A range of techniques was used to hook the individuals. Subtle forms of blackmail were used in conjunction with money and the interaction of personalities (developing common interests and concerns). As with all recruitment, the objective was to establish a web of complicity that encircled the agent. Money was used to keep the person happy and producing.

Q. How did you use these journalist recruits? Were they used only to publish articles? What were the themes you focused on?

A. The primary responsibility of these journalists was to publish articles and stories, but these pieces did not emphasize support for Soviet policy. Rather, the major focus concentrated on undermining the United States and NATO, and on creating rifts between West Germany and France or between the United States and its allies. The principal theme argued that the NATO alliance was disintegrating because the United States was militaristic, dangerous, and not sensitive to European needs. For example, in West Germany the United States was charged with ignoring German heritage and culture during the pose-war occupation, and with forcing alien institutions and political culture on the German people. West Germany was presented to the French and to other Europeans as harboring strong Nazi tendencies, and it was claimed that many war criminals had been reinstated into positions of political power in the West German government. This was presented as extremely dangerous for all of Europe.

Q. How did you get the journalists to produce? Did you provide completed articles for them to publish?

I knew of no situation in which completed articles were passed to an agent. This would be operationally awkward, and might end up revealing the association. The reason I say this is because it is extremely difficult to copy someone else’s writing style. I did provide guidelines for the agent to follow. These consisted of a two-or-three page outline of objectives and themes to be covered in a given article. After I had provided these guidelines, the agent then would produce the story. Sometimes I would include materials and information he could draw upon.

Q. Did the journalists you directed serve other purposes? Did you use them for influence operations against other journalists, political figures, or other important associates?

A. All agents, including journalists, were employed for intelligence collection. Thy frequently had access to confidential information that could be quite useful. As for influence operations, during my time we used only a few journalists for this purpose. I would say that the majority of the journalists we directed were not used for influence operations. Only the most reliable individuals, and those with useful connections, were used in this capacity.

Q. How about recruitment? Did you use journalists to recruit other journalists?

A. I would say that it was very rare indeed when an agent could be used in this capacity. He could be used, however, to identify potential targets. Furthermore, if he was acquainted with a target, the agent could assist in gathering the kinds of information necessary to determine whether the target was vulnerable, and how you might catch him.

Q. How closely did headquarters monitor and evaluate journalist operations? What criteria were used to meausre effectiveness?

A. In the case of journalists, the criteria tended to be straightforward: the number of articles published, the quality of these articles, and where they appeared (i.e. whether they were published in a major newspaper). These were the general measures employed. Whether or not the articles persuaded the intended targets is much more difficult to determine, and is quite subjective. A forgery is a good example, as is overt propaganda. The immediate impat of these operations is often unclear. During my time, there was no highly developed system for measuring the immediate impact of disinformation exercises. All such operations were evaluated in terms of their cumulative effect on the target over time. This is the way Moscow and Prague approached such questions during the 1960s.